Medina Sidonia

Medina-Sidonia is a town and municipality inside the province of Cadiz inside the self reliant community of Andalusia, southern Spain. It is taken into consideration with the aid of a few to be the oldest metropolis in Europe, used as a military protection location due to its elevated region. Locals are called Asidonenses. The town's name comes from Medina and Sidonia,meaning "City of Sidon". Medina-Sidonia became one in every of Spain's maximum critical ducal seats inside the 15th century; producing an admiral, Alonso Perez de Guzman, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, who led the Spanish Armada towards England in 1588.

The title of Duque de Medina Sidonia was bestowed upon the own family of Guzman El Bueno for his valiant position in taking the city. The line keeps and become led until March 2008 via the debatable socialist, Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia. This town become most probably ancient Asido, an Iberian settlement which might also have been founded by the Phoenicians, as a result the later name Sidonia reflecting its foundation through Sidon.